Thread 212705855

saudi arabia
>42%
oman
>61%
kuwait
>69%
bahrain
>well over 66%
UAE
>88%
qatar
>89%

bonus fun fact:
>stats that report averages or per capita figures count the total population in the denominator.
make of this what you will.

>>212705855 (OP)
all indians btw

>>212705855 (OP)
You use them as labor and then deport them though right?

>>212705894
no.
>>212705925
yes.

>>212705894
And that's a good thing

>>212705894
A lot of Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Nepalis too. Treated like slaves.

Also a small percentage of western consultants / engineers / project managers doing the technical work.
Treated much better than the labourers, and paid well, but expected to do long hours and deal with a tonne of bullshit (Middle East clients are demanding assholes who change their mind constantly, and don’t understand what they’re asking for most of the time).

There’s even a few Chinese because they’re involved in a few oil fields, and also they manufacture pretty much all the pre-fab components and equipment needed for projects (solar panels, air conditioners, vents, wiring, etc). Makes sense for them to have people in the region.

You go to Saudi / Dubai / Qatar, etc with two buckets. One for for money and one for bullshit, and you go home when one of them is full.

>>212705855 (OP)
I like how you guys almost never give immigrants citizenship. We should've done start from the late 19th century.

>>212706430
Aren't a lot of the diasporas having kids there and settling? I've heard there's Filipino and Indian schools there now. Even though they're technically not citizens, they're establishing roots.

The thirdies I know who worked there for construction said they were treated pretty good.

>>212706478
>wanting to be a citizen in a goatfucker ponzi scheme "country"
In case you haven't noticed by their increasingly retarded potemkin village roads to nowhere clown show megaprojects, they will be back to scrounging in the desert, drinking camel piss and eating rocks, within a generation of oil running out

>>212705894
indians and filipino maidens

>>212706546
Maybe? I was there about 10 years ago. It might have improved. A lot of the labourers on projects were single guys or had a family back home. I don’t think many of them had families locally, but maybe they’ve relaxed the rules on family migration.
I was working on designing waste management infrastructure in the region, and it was next to impossible to figure out future demand, because they didn’t really know how many people would be in the country / emirate. The locals were outnumbered by “guest workers”, and the number of “guest workers” depended on economic growth and the vanity project pipeline, all of which basically depended entirely on the price of oil.

>>212705925
>deport
uh... sure

Please tell me you have a contingency plan in case they try and revolt.

>>212706756
They already showed their contingency plan 34 years ago
Cry to the US so we have to go in boots on the ground

Gulf Arabs can't even wipe their own ass without a Filipino, they can barely walk in their own house, the only sentient humans realize what a dystopia modern Gulfie life is and become hardcore fundamentalist Muslim jihadis to have some modicum of meaning in their life

>>212706756
The Saudis have an incredibly well funded military. They’re one of western arms manufacturers best customers. And they’ve been testing their toys out on Yemen for ages.

The Emiratis on the other hand might be in some trouble if their guest workers revolted.

>>212706832
>The Emiratis on the other hand might be in some trouble if their guest workers revolted.
picrel is a thing.

>>212706968
>implying Saudi wouldn't just annex UAE in an instant if it ever had a chance

>>212705925
They're used for literally everything, not just le slave labor like Redditors love to spout.

gulf arabs treat indians like subhumans, how can they handle living there?

>>212706605
Actually they were mostly fishermen and pearl divers before oil

>>212706430
I personally know some Koreans whos working in those Gulf countries(all oil/gas related engineers ofc) and they say the ones with the US or UK passport get paid the most. I'd like to go and work there someday as well, but who knows